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title: Me sho say you an you fambly bin come back fuh tek anarruh tun long… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Me sho say you an you fambly bin come back fuh tek anarruh tun long de meat.” Who acts: Me, you, fuh tek anarruh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 17

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Me sho say you an you fambly bin come back fuh tek anarruh tun long de meat.”

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**Who acts:** Me, you, fuh tek anarruh · **What happens:** say, come back, tun · **To what, where:** you, long de meat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Me, you, fuh tek anarruh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:12:17
# text = Me sho say you an you fambly bin come back fuh tek anarruh tun long de meat.”
1	Me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	sho	sho	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	fambly	fambly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	tek	tek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	anarruh	anarruh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	tun	tun	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	compound	_	_
17	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* |  | Me | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come back** | present | you |  |  |  |  | fambly bin *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tun** | present | fuh tek anarruh | long de meat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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